“Preacher was talking there’s a sermon he gave
He said every man’s conscience is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
When it’s you who must keep it satisfied
(Bob Dylan—The Man in the Long Black Coat)
I really like Joan Osborne’s cover of this Bob Dylan song. What has me thinking of “vileness” and “depravity” this crisp and sunny March 1, 2010 day? Last Thursday’s all day health care talkfest. I had neither the time nor the inclination to watch the “Blair House Health Care Summit”. But I did get to watch countless video clips of “Prime Minister” Obama at the meeting. I also read and watched assorted commentaries and opinions about which side scored the most political points.
Why did Obama insist on putting us through this nonsense? This was
promoted as a good faith effort to reach “common ground” on how the
Government should control 300 million people’s health care. The results
of the summit, of course, showed us just the opposite. Each side’s
position hardened in the course of the meeting, as all sentient beings
knew would happen—and in fact should have happened. Many so-called good
government types think this is a travesty for some reason. While the
current health care system is clearly suboptimal, Prime Minister
Obama’s proposal would make it much worse. Sometimes the two political
parties really do fundamentally disagree. read more…
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